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TIL the Catholic Church purchased the area of the KKK headquarters and turned it into a church

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J1OO4 TIL Before 9/11, the deadliest building collapse since the Civil War was the Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse, which killed 114 people and whose chief cause were rods only rated to handle 30% of the weight the walkway was designed for snapped and fell on a High School Reunion Tea Dance
ADaE7 TIL that it has been argued that the "rib" (צְלָעֹת ṣela‘, also translated "flank" or "side") in the story of Adam and Eve is actually a mistranslation of a Biblical Hebrew euphemism for baculum, a bone found in the penis of many placental mammals but that is absent in the human penis.
ZpyJa TIL The Dick Van Dyke Show was originally written entirely by Carl Reiner, about stories from Reiner's life, and starred Carl Reiner. The pilot was unsuccessful so it was reworked with Dick Van Dyke playing Robert Petrie.
LVb0 TIL there is a punctuation mark that exists for the purpose of expressing irony.
wLLKJ TIL the term 'soap operas' originated from daily 15 minute programs on the radio and were so-called because they were sponsored by soap companies, such as Colgate-Palmolive and Procter & Gamble. Soap operas were specifically engineered to appeal to women with the intention of increasing sale of soap